Sometimes, you get stuck with a bad boss. Someone who makes you work weekends…or who, like, clips their nails at their desk. Maybe you’ve thought about quitting, but you’ve probably (we hope) never gone to extremes like the guys from Horrible Bosses 2. In honor of them – and anyone who’s ever dealt with a bad boss – here are some of the most cringeworthy bosses in movies and television.
1. Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) in The Devil Wears Prada
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Miranda Priestly is probably the scariest kind of boss because she’s so calm about it all, even when she’s saying something completely soul-crushing.
2. Bobby Pellitt (Colin Farrell) in Horrible Bosses
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Ok so there are several awful bosses in this movie, hence the title, but we're singling out Bobby because he represents nepotism, incompetence and really bad combovers. He's also a raging cocaine addict. Bad, bad, bad.
3. Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole) in Office Space
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Lumbergh is the epitome of the annoying boss. He makes his employees work weekends, he's a stickler for pointless TPS reports, and he says things like "I'm gonna need you to..." right before assigning you a mundane task.
4. Michael Scott (Steve Carell) in The Office
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We love Michael Scott, but man did he make us cringe. Whether he was telling an inappropriate joke or running down one of his employees with his car, he was simply not meant to be a boss.
5. David Brent (Ricky Gervais) in The Office (UK)
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David Brent had even less of a clue than Michael Scott, if that's possible. He thinks his workers look up to him as a mentor, but they really don't respect him at all.
6. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) in Grey’s Anatomy
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We’ve seen Bailey’s softer side, but remember when she was known only as “The Nazi”? She kept those interns in line!
7. Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) in The Proposal
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This Canadian boss lady forces her assistant to pretend he’s her fiancé in order to avoid deportation. Not only is that totally awkward, it’s an HR nightmare! Thankfully Ryan Reynolds was very accommodating.
8. Don Draper (Jon Hamm) in Mad Men
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Granted Don Draper is good at what he does, but he’s kind of the worst boss. Just ask Peggy – she’s seen his bad side on more than one occasion. He sleeps with his secretaries, drinks during the day and takes frequent naps on the couch in his office.
9. President Snow (Donald Sutherland) in The Hunger Games
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He’s the boss of an entire country and he’s completely evil. Definitely not a person you want in charge. He sends children to fight to the death basically for his own amusement.
10. Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in Breaking Bad
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He wasn’t so much a boss as he was a, well, kingpin, but he still had complete control over his “employee” Jesse Pinkman. All that manipulation really made us cringe!
11. Maria Laguerta (Lauren Velez) in Dexter
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Over the course of Dexter, the fiercely ambitious Laguerta went from Lieutenant to Captain of the Miami Metro Police Department and never failed to make Debra Morgan’s life a living hell.
12. Carter Duryea (Topher Grace) in In Good Company
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At 26, he became the boss at an established sports magazine and was forced to manage people with way more experience than him – namely Dennis Quaid’s Dan Foreman. He was all about promoting “synergy,” despite having little to no clue what that actually meant.
13. Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) in Parks and Recreation
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Don’t get us wrong, we love everything about Ron Swanson - from his mustache to his deep and abiding love of red meat. But he works in city government and actively tries to make it less effective. Not exactly someone you want running things.
14. Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) in The Wolf of Wall Street
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Belfort represented Wall Street corruption at its worst. He ran his firm with no ethical standards, and when he was caught, he barely got any jail time! Most cringeworthy thing about this guy is that he actually existed!
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Live Aid hero Midge Ure will perform Ultravox's hit Vienna with a full orchestra as part of an upcoming concert to launch this year's (14) Ryder Cup golf tournament. The singer, who is currently on tour with Howard Jones and the Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey in America, will perform the classic track with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at Glasgow's SSE Hydro on 24 September (14).
He won't be the only Scot on the bill - Texas, Amy Macdonald and Eddi Reader will perform, while Chic's Nile Rodgers will hit the stage with the orchestra for classical versions of his Daft Punk collaboration Get Lucky, as well as Chic tunes Good Times and Le Freak.
The concert will help launch the Ryder Cup's Europe versus America clash at Gleneagles in Perthshire.

Musician Melissa Etheridge wed her partner Linda Wallem in an intimate ceremony in California on Saturday (31May14). The singer serenaded the Nurse Jackie creator as she walked down the aisle in front of their celebrity friends, including Rosie O'Donnell and Chelsea Handler at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito.
A source tells People.com, "It was such a magical moment."
Etheridge's four kids, Bailey, Beckett, Miller and Johnnie, all participated in the ceremony.
Before exchanging vows, Etheridge uploaded a snap of the sandals she was wearing on her big day, writing, "A gorgeous, perfect, beautiful day to get married. #shoesonlylove."
The rocker announced plans to wed her partner, who she has dated since 2010, after U.S. High Court officials overturned California's Proposition 8 bill, which outlawed gay marriage, last year (13).
She said, "It is about family and I love my four kids. I called my now-fiancee. I'm looking forward to marrying my partner of three years... I'm going to get married in the state of California... Love is love and America is beautiful... I'm proud to be an American."
Etheridge split from her former partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels, in 2010.

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For the bulk of every Rocky and Bullwinkle episode, moose and squirrel would engage in high concept escapades that satirized geopolitics, contemporary cinema, and the very fabrics of the human condition. With all of that to work with, there's no excuse for why the pair and their Soviet nemeses haven't gotten a decent movie adaptation. But the ingenious Mr. Peabody and his faithful boy Sherman are another story, intercut between Rocky and Bullwinkle segments to teach kids brief history lessons and toss in a nearly lethal dose of puns. Their stories and relationship were much simpler, which means that bringing their shtick to the big screen would entail a lot more invention — always risky when you're dealing with precious material.
For the most part, Mr. Peabody &amp; Sherman handles the regeneration of its heroes aptly, allowing for emotionally substance in their unique father-son relationship and all the difficulties inherent therein. The story is no subtle metaphor for the difficulties surrounding gay adoption, with society decreeing that a dog, no matter how hyper-intelligent, cannot be a suitable father. The central plot has Peabody hosting a party for a disapproving child services agent and the parents of a young girl with whom 7-year-old Sherman had a schoolyard spat, all in order to prove himself a suitable dad. Of course, the WABAC comes into play when the tots take it for a spin, forcing Peabody to rush to their rescue.
Getting down to personals, we also see the left brain-heavy Peabody struggle with being father Sherman deserves. The bulk of the emotional marks are hit as we learn just how much Peabody cares for Sherman, and just how hard it has been to accept that his only family is growing up and changing.
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But more successful than the new is the film's handling of the old — the material that Peabody and Sherman purists will adore. They travel back in time via the WABAC Machine to Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, and the Trojan War, and 18th Century France, explaining the cultural backdrop and historical significance of the settings and characters they happen upon, all with that irreverent (but no longer racist) flare that the old cartoons enjoyed. And oh... the puns.
Mr. Peabody &amp; Sherman is a f**king treasure trove of some of the most amazingly bad puns in recent cinema. This effort alone will leave you in awe.
The film does unravel in its final act, bringing the science-fiction of time travel a little too close to the forefront and dropping the ball on a good deal of its emotional groundwork. What seemed to be substantial building blocks do not pay off in the way we might, as scholars of animated family cinema, have anticipated, leaving the movie with an unfinished feeling.
But all in all, it's a bright, compassionate, reasonably educational, and occasionally funny if not altogether worthy tribute to an old favorite. And since we don't have our own WABAC machine to return to a time of regularly scheduled Peabody and Sherman cartoons, this will do okay for now.
If nothing else, it's worth your time for the puns.
3/5
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If you’ve been secretly fantasizing about the Atlanta Housewives in Street Figher-like battles, then your consider your wish granted. This week marks Round 2 of NeNe Leakes’ Pajama Jammy Jam. To review… Christopher Williams grabbed Kenya Moore’s arm. This caused Kenya’s friend Brandon DeShazer to step in and promptly get smacked down by Apollo Nida and Peter Thomas. Then M. Bison stopped by and threatened to turn the world to ash.
Round 2 finds everyone reeling from what happened. NeNe is still yelling and blames Kenya. Porsha Stewart leaves because she’s about 50 percent sure someone’s possessed. She doesn’t go on record as saying she believes in ghosts but after seeing Bill Cosby die in Ghost Dad and then show up on her television she believes in evil spirits. Kenya and Brandon leave and Apollo shows off his sexy physique.
There’s a détente and peace is restored... until Kandi Burruss brings up what Natalie Macklin-Williams said about Todd Tucker. Natalie performs the 3-hit under the bus combo and shifts the blame to Cynthia Bailey. Cynthia and Kandi exchange words and hand gestures. Malorie Massie steps in to separate the two dueling ladies and that turns Kandi into E. Honda because a thousand hand-slaps start flying. However, honestly, Malorie could eat Kandi she’s so tiny. It would be like a gazelle fighting a smurf. Luckily, Phaedra Parks steps in and diffuses the situation.
In the light of day things look completely different. NeNe is emotional about her party. She blames Kenya for the drama. It’s clear NeNe has an agenda. Where does she think things will go when she brings a bunch of people with issues into one room? NeNe is the one that started pointing fingers and reading loaded questions to the group. However, since Kenya was the catalyst to the actual fight it looks like she stole focus from NeNe and released the Kraken. You don’t want to make NeNe angry.
Cynthia is not thrilled with Kandi’s behavior. Shockingly enough, Kandi isn’t either. They both recount that night’s events. Meanwhile, at Kenya’s model home, Brandon and Kenya are starting to resemble Team Rocket, the villains from Pokemon with their lame-brained schemes. They’re ultimately harmless but they keep starting unnecessary trouble. Brandon shows up with physical scars from the fight…and a police report. He’s consulted his lawyer Jacoby not Myers and if he presses charges it will be considered a felony. Apparently, one of his ribs is broken. This is starting to smell contrived, which coincidentally, smells like cotton candy and burning hair. Keep an eye out for Kenya’s new perfume Contrived at a 99 cent store near you.
Meanwhile, the divorce clock has started on Apollo and Phaedra. She seems unconcerned with Apollo’s presence or his apology. However, he did physically throw her aside to attack Brandon. But he does look good with his shirt off so maybe it’s a wash. They then discuss furries and pajama fetishists. Then Apollo apologizes (ha!) but he seems more relaxed after having instigated a full-on brawl. Remember, the first rule of pajama parties.
After a stunt casting call for Kandi’s musical, Kandi decides she needs to stage a mea culpa for the ladies. She invites them all to a spa for free massages. Unable to refuse anything free, they all show up despite their issues with each other. Cynthia avoids Kandi until she drags all the ladies together away from their free massages for tea… out of paper cups. There the ladies engage in the most ancient of reality television marital arts – the non-pology. It’s a lot like krav maga except instead of actual hits you just use indefinite words like “allegedly” and “if” a lot. The ladies finally agree that Kandi is sorry and that Cynthia is sorry if Malorie pushed Kandi.
But NeNe doesn’t care. She wants a pound of Kenya’s flesh for ruining her pa-drama jammy jam. She says Kenya manufactured the entire situation. However, given the play-by-play conveniently provided by the producers, it’s clear that Christopher did grab Kenya’s arm and Brandon did misguidedly step in. However, if anyone is an instigator its NeNe. Kenya may be an opportunist but this situation wouldn’t have been a powder keg of drama had NeNe not invited them all there. Meanwhile, NeNe starts making some borderline homophobic comments about Kenya's gay friend, Brandon. She may be a friend to gay people but she gets precariously close to crossing the line. They agree to disagree. They're lucky this isn't Mortal Kombat. Finish Her!
Talking Trash
Your hands aren’t clean they’re full of grease. – Kenya to NeNe
I just start seeing spirits in people’s faces. I wouldn’t say demons but there was definitely an evil spirit that entered their space. – Spiritualist Porsha
We all know Cynthia won’t pop a grape but we know her sister will pop off. – Kandi on her wine preferences?
I acted crazy and ratchet but, hey, I did it. – Kandi
When I came inside I saw a full-on episode of Jerry Stringer jumping up. She was acting like some ghetto-ass f**king heifer. – Peter describing Kandi
You were acting like your Momma. – Carmen
Phaedra: I’m very irritable today. Apollo: Only today?
I'm not sure I want to see Shade-dra. – Wordsmith Kenya
They massaged her so good she thought they put their toes up her butt. – Phaedra
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The episode was all about ghosts. You know, the manifestation of tired dead things that just will not go away like the random Bravo reality shows that follow the Housewives. This episode finds the ladies haunted by the fight from the last episode. Kenya Moore is still yelling at Kandi Burruss about her and Phaedra Parks’ lateness. Then the girls gloss over it and start talking about how often they have sex while watching Phaedra pump her breast?!? Everyone disagrees about the importance of being submissive to their husband except for Mynique Smith. That makes Porsha Stewart cry because she’s still haunted by the ghost of her failed marriage. You need an exorcism Porsha!
The ladies stay at the Wedding Cake Mansion in Savannah. They get the run of a luxury mansion and the ladies set off to choose their room. Haunted by the horrible parenting of her crazy mother Momma Joyce, Kandi decides to take the master bedroom. Regardless of Bravo footing the bill, NeNe Leakes is the person that planned the trip so she does technically deserve the room. But in the same way that some people can’t see ghosts, Kandi cannot see general manners. After all, were it not for NeNe she would be vacationing in obscurity with The Kandi Factory.
After Roomgate, the ladies huddle in the kitchen for a glass of wine. NeNe keeps NayNay her aggressive alter-ego at bay. That leaves room for everyone else to dust off their triflin’ muscles. Kenya tries to stir the pot and suggest that NeNe set some ground rules. And thus begins the first fight of the trip. Mynique tries to be cute and teases Phaedra about being late. Then Phaedra reads her and gives her a fright. The girls decompress and discuss Mynique’s thorough reading. She was torn a new one thoroughly by Phaedra with a well-placed side eye. Meanwhile, Phaedra and Kandi are discussing their mutual connection to Mynique’s husband Chuck Smith. Given Phaedra’s love of the macabre, the two run after a hearse with a bunch of people sitting in the back.
Mynique pops into Cynthia Bailey’s room for some eye make-up tips. She ends up getting some lessons in the Queen’s English by Cynthia. Thus proving what everyone has failed to acknowledge, The Real Housewives franchise is centered around older women pretending to be gay men. Kandi has a Facetime call with her husband Todd Tucker and he ignores her most of the time. Could she be haunted by the ghost of the truth? Maybe Momma Joyce’s crazy allegations are truthful.
The ladies tour one of the oldest African-American churches in North America. Porsha discusses her grandfather, civil rights leader Hosea Washington, because they are in one of the stops of the Underground Railroad. Sadly, haunted by the paint chips she ate as a child, Porsha doesn’t realize that the Underground Railroad was a metaphorical railroad ... not an actual one.
The girls conclude day one with drinks. They decide to spill some tea ... about Mynique’s husband and his many girlfriends that are all sitting at the same table. Mynique plays dumb but Phadra and Kandi confess they all dated Chuck. When Porsha speaks up, Mynique tests her reading skills and comes after Porsha. However, Porsha is not having it and let's Mynique know where she stands in the group ...way in the back.
Shady Quotables
I have a newborn, I’m a mother and I have jobs. -Phaedra to Mynique
I hope you got that Monique with a y instead of an o. Who does that anyway? -Phaedra
I don’t think she read me. I don’t feel read. -Mynique
She’s a white girl in a black-white girl’s body. - NeNe about Mynique
Now she [Kandi] ain’t ran in her entire life and she’s about to start running up these steps. -NeNe
There has to be an opening at some point because somebody’s driving a train ... they’re not electric like what we have now. -Porsha about the Underground Railroad
It’s almost hurtful to me to watch her be so dumb. - Kenya about Porsha
I don’t even know you. -Most of the girls about Mynique
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This episode was the aperitif to whet your appetite for the drama of the girl’s trip. Bravo Producers NeNe Leakes has planned a trip to Savannah for the ladies so they can bring their unique blend of ratchet glamour to a new area of the south. NeNe is packing and prepping while her husband, Gregg Leakes, walks around in the background trying on her shoes and accessories, to which NeNe replies, “Yes, Gregg is a Queen.”
Kandi Burruss decides to have a powwow with Cynthia Bailey because Cynthia also had a storyline issue with her mother disliking her fiancé, Peter Thomas. Kandi bursts into tears and Cynthia does her best attempt at sympathizing (that’s when models have sympathy with their eyes). Kandi complains about how her mother and her OLG (Old Lady Gang) took over her bridal fitting and threatened her friend, Carmen.
Meanwhile, across town, and to the left of the bail bondsman, Phaedra Parks is on Facetime with her son and husband, Apollo Nida. She hangs up on him unceremoniously because someone surprises her ... Momma Joyce. Oh Momma, you have lost it! The conversation starts off like your average friend’s mother asking a lawyer friend for free legal advice. But isn’t this the same woman that was slut-shaming Phaedra for liking strippers? Either way, Momma Joyce has vital pre-nup questions to ask her friend Phadra. The conversation quickly degrades when Phaedra insists that Todd Tucker is a good fit for Kandi. Momma Joyce disagrees with her and vaguely mentions wanting to slit her throat. Did Momma Joyce forget to take her pills?
Porsha Stewart decides to go shopping, despite living with her mother. She has to decide between a $7,000 dollar and a $3,500 dollar pair of shoes. She chooses the $3,500 pair of gold spiked heels and quickly returns them the next day.
Kenya Moore starts packing for the trip with her male friend and singing her out-of-tune songs and twerking. She needs to do something interesting or she may join Shereè Whitfield, Lisa Wu, and General Zod in the Phantom Zone. Everything is boring, as usual, until she pulls out a gun. It just got real!
Kandi has a confrontation with Momma Joyce. This poor old woman doesn’t have a leg to stand on. She keeps attacking Kandi’s friends and fiancé, their character, and her daughter’s choices. All this with no proof and not realizing that they are being filmed and all of this is available for repeat viewing. And yet, she is the one living in Kandi’s old house, wearing her old clothes, and her old hair. She gives Kandi an ultimatum, if Kandi chooses Carmen and Todd over her she is done ... until her mortgage bill comes.
The moment arrives for the ladies to leave for Savannah. NeNe has a little brunch planned and invites her friend Mynique Smith on the trip. The girls are expected at 11 am, since they are going on a road trip. At 11:30, Kenya arrives and begins complaining about being the only one there despite, being half an hour late herself. Cynthia arrives next an hour late. Kenya is fuming and trying to rowl up NeNe for a repeat of last season, when NeNe disinvited the girls to her dinner party because they showed up three hours late.
Speaking of three hours late, Porsha Stewart arrives, and by then NeNe has lost it and heads back home. Kandi arrives a few hours late because she had to stop at Chik-fil-a. How do you eat before a pre-trip brunch? Finally, 12 years later, Phaedra arrives and the girls board the bus.
On the bus, Kenya makes some pronouncements about lateness and what she deserves. They are quickly met with Kandi getting up and yelling. Sounds like this is going to be a good trip ... for the viewers at home because these women will be yelling a lot.
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When we last left our heroes, they had conquered all opponents in the 74th Annual Hunger Games, returned home to their newly refurbished living quarters in District 12, and fallen haplessly to the cannibalism of PTSD. And now we're back! Hitching our wagons once again to laconic Katniss Everdeen and her sweet-natured, just-for-the-camera boyfriend Peeta Mellark as they gear up for a second go at the Capitol's killing fields.
But hold your horses — there's a good hour and a half before we step back into the arena. However, the time spent with Katniss and Peeta before the announcement that they'll be competing again for the ceremonial Quarter Quell does not drag. In fact, it's got some of the film franchise's most interesting commentary about celebrity, reality television, and the media so far, well outweighing the merit of The Hunger Games' satire on the subject matter by having Katniss struggle with her responsibilities as Panem's idol. Does she abide by the command of status quo, delighting in the public's applause for her and keeping them complacently saturated with her smiles and curtsies? Or does Katniss hold three fingers high in opposition to the machine into which she has been thrown? It's a quarrel that the real Jennifer Lawrence would handle with a castigation of the media and a joke about sandwiches, or something... but her stakes are, admittedly, much lower. Harvey Weinstein isn't threatening to kill her secret boyfriend.
Through this chapter, Katniss also grapples with a more personal warfare: her devotion to Gale (despite her inability to commit to the idea of love) and her family, her complicated, moralistic affection for Peeta, her remorse over losing Rue, and her agonizing desire to flee the eye of the public and the Capitol. Oftentimes, Katniss' depression and guilty conscience transcends the bounds of sappy. Her soap opera scenes with a soot-covered Gale really push the limits, saved if only by the undeniable grace and charisma of star Lawrence at every step along the way of this film. So it's sappy, but never too sappy.
In fact, Catching Fire is a masterpiece of pushing limits as far as they'll extend before the point of diminishing returns. Director Francis Lawrence maintains an ambiance that lends to emotional investment but never imposes too much realism as to drip into territories of grit. All of Catching Fire lives in a dreamlike state, a stark contrast to Hunger Games' guttural, grimacing quality that robbed it of the life force Suzanne Collins pumped into her first novel.
Once we get to the thunderdome, our engines are effectively revved for the "fun part." Katniss, Peeta, and their array of allies and enemies traverse a nightmare course that seems perfectly suited for a videogame spin-off. At this point, we've spent just enough time with the secondary characters to grow a bit fond of them — deliberately obnoxious Finnick, jarringly provocative Johanna, offbeat geeks Beedee and Wiress — but not quite enough to dissolve the mystery surrounding any of them or their true intentions (which become more and more enigmatic as the film progresses). We only need adhere to Katniss and Peeta once tossed in the pit of doom that is the 75th Hunger Games arena, but finding real characters in the other tributes makes for a far more fun round of extreme manhunt.
But Catching Fire doesn't vie for anything particularly grand. It entertains and engages, having fun with and anchoring weight to its characters and circumstances, but stays within the expected confines of what a Hunger Games movie can be. It's a good one, but without shooting for succinctly interesting or surprising work with Katniss and her relationships or taking a stab at anything but the obvious in terms of sending up the militant tyrannical autocracy, it never even closes in on the possibility of being a great one.
3.5/5
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British funnymen Simon Pegg and Bill Bailey are leading the tributes to comedian Felix Dexter, who died on Friday (18Oct13). The actor/comic was battling myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer, and was said to have been 52 years old at the time of his passing.
A host of famous faces have taken to Twitter.com to share their memories of the late Brit, with Shaun of the Dead star Pegg revealing he and Dexter were signed to the same management company.
He writes, "Felix Dexter... Very sad to hear news of his passing. Very funny man," while Bailey added, "Very sad news about my old friend Felix Dexter. A brilliant comedian, a superb comic actor, a lovely man I feel privileged to have known."
London-born Dexter starred in a string of U.K. TV comedies including The Real McCoy, The Fast Show, Absolutely Fabulous, and Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge.
He also had a stint performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and appeared onstage in London's famed West End theatre district.
Actor/radio DJ Eddie Nestor, a longtime pal of Dexter, says, "It's a sad day. It's a really sad day. I went to see him and we talked and we laughed, and we laughed really hard. This is somebody who's been diagnosed with a terminal illness and you find yourself laughing really hard, belly laughs. We've lost a talented, intelligent, articulate performer who could touch - who could reach out."

If Meredith thought becoming a doctor was difficult, it pales in comparison to the amount of stress she’s been dealing with in light of this year’s pregnancy. This week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy, “Idle Hands,” offered a glimpse into the soon-to-be mother’s inner fears as she agonized over the health of her unborn child — something that she’s done several times before. (Remember when she panicked over the baby’s first kick?) But most importantly, this episode let fans in on the secret we’ve all been dying to know for months: the sex of Meredith and Derek’s baby! So is it a McBoy or McGirl? Find out all that and more, below.
A Leg Up on Love: It’s amazing what a new prosthetic leg can do for one’s sex drive, as seemed to be the case with Seattle Grace’s Grey Sloan Memorial’s sexy lady loves, Arizona and Callie. After showcasing her new and improved, high-heel wearing prosthetic leg, Arizona finally felt ready to get back on that proverbial horse and bring sex back into the bedroom again. Unfortunately, things didn’t go exactly how they planned (when do they ever on this show), but it was nothing a few sweet words, a heartfelt apology, and a sensual massage couldn’t fix. I think it’s safe to say the spark has officially been reignited.
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Will the Real Miss Jenny Tailia Please Stand Up: Still jealous over Jo’s romantic relations with Dr. Jason, Karev decided to team up with his child cancer patient and play practical jokes on the new beau, which included sending him on a wild goose chase for the made-up patient named “Jenny Tailia,” (as in, genitalia), among other highly mature antics. Granted, it was creative and (I’ll admit) downright hilarious, but it would be nice to see Karev make some sort of grand gesture sometime in the near future. We know he’s got it in him; we’ve seen it firsthand. Stop teasing us already and let’s get to the main event. It’s been way too long since Karev’s last steamy romance. He deserves this (and so do we).
Two Birds, One Stone: While Bailey was determined to get her fellow doctors-turned-board-members to support a genome research project, Cristina was beginning to realize the bittersweet truths of being both a doctor and an authority figure. When a former classmate’s achievements seemed to outshine her own, Cristina jumped at the opportunity to scrub in with the head of cardio on a unique heart procedure.
However, she soon realized that the doc wasn’t trying to recruit her expertise; he was simply trying to pitch a case for more funding. But no one who insults Cristina Yang goes unpunished. After a quick board meeting, she decided to cut the heart surgeon’s funding instead, and gave it to Bailey to use for her study. Now left with fewer workers and less money, the doc had no choice but to accept Cristina’s oh-so-willing help. Revenge suits you nicely, Yang.
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McBoy vs. McGirl: Meredith has become absolutely paranoid about the possible health risks of her unborn baby (though who could blame her after her last traumatic miscarriage). From predicting heart murmurs to worrying that her child will be born with three arms and 11 fingers, Meredith was determined to fear the worst. But, in true McDreamy fashion, Daddy Derek was there to save the day. After coaching Shane on how to handle a young patient’s scary, upset father, Derek took his worried wife for an ultrasound to calm her fears where they discovered that not only is the baby completely healthy, but it’s a boy. Look out for the future McDreamy Junior!
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So what did you think of this week’s episode? Are you anxious for a Jo-Karev hookup? Do you like the hospital’s most recent changes or are you hating this whole doctor-board member balancing act? Are you excited that Meredith and Derek are having a boy?! Sound off on your dissections and opinions in the comments below!
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